THE FIELD - From Here We Go Sublime reviews
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| StylusMagazine |
Every track on the debut album of Axel Willner, the Swedish ambient techno producer behind the Field, feels both buoyant and wholly submerged in something horizon-fat and translucent. Listening to it is like holding your head under heated water with only one iPod earbud attached—vague, blurry, a snub of the eye that makes clarity seem so goddam dull. Look at From Here You Go Sublime’s ten-minute centerpiece, “The Deal.” Placed just after the record goes from its relatively floor-fit starter’s shot—if you can really call anything on From Here ‘floor-fit’—Willner begins to play strange with the moist, hypervisual atmospheres he’s worked up in the album’s first-half....full text |
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| PitchFork |
| After centuries of music consumption, we're still obsessed with the crescendo. From all that classical music we learned in school to modern soundtrack fodder to the banal quiet/loud/quiet dynamics of groups like Explosions in the Sky, people still seek the thrill that comes when music reaches its stirring Big Moment. Blame remote controls or the death of vinyl, but 30-odd years after Brian Eno invented ambient music, most people are wary about "turning off" to any music that doesn't actively seek to engage them. Deep listening remains mostly theoretical in the age of mp3s....full text |
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| DustedMagazine |
| Trance has been on the way back for a while now. In truth, it hardly disappeared: DJs like Tiesto and Sasha still pack them in to this day. Trance certainly hasn't been hip for a good many years though, as the cutting edge of 4/4 electronic music shifted to what was first termed 'microhouse' and has since evolved into 'minimal.' The word 'trance' itself has become a kind of slur for many people, conjuring up all the worst excesses of late '90s club culture which the new styles aligned themselves against. But as the clipped minimal style has now been established as a permanent fixture itself, the dialectic has cut back the other way....full text |
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